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SHOWKEY(1)                     Development Tools                    SHOWKEY(1)


NAME

       showkey_ - echo raw keystrokes back at you in a printable form


SYNOPSIS

       showkey


DESCRIPTION

       This program puts your terminal in raw mode, eats keystrokes, and
       prints them back it you in a recognizable printed form. I will be
       useful if you're not certain what various keyboard keys are sending.

       Non-printables (and whitespace) are displayed as cookies surrounded by
       < >. The cookie will always contain an ASCII mnemonic (NUL, SOH, STX,
       ETX, EOT, ENQ, ACK, BEL, BS, HT, LF, VT, FF, CR, SO, SI, DLE, DC1, DC2,
       DC3, DC4, NAK, SYN, ETB, CAN, EM, SUB, ESC, FS, GS, RS, US, SP) and may
       also contain a control-key formula.

       Characters with the high bit set are shown as <ALT-xxx>, where xxx is
       generated as previously described. You terminate the program with your
       shell interrupt or quit characters.


AUTHOR

       Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>

showkey                           04/05/2015                        SHOWKEY(1)

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